1/ The new issue of #InequalityMatters is out! 📊 It combines major LIS/LWS data updates with latest research on inequality. lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/u...

📢 New Data & Research Insights! --#InequalityMatters, Issue 34, June 2025 is out!-- www.lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/u...

🚨 New map features on @ourworldindata.org ! 🌍 OWID just rolled out upgrades to their data explorers—more intuitive, and easier to compare the LIS data. ourworldindata.org/new-features...

🚨 Major release alert We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 — our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer 📦 🧵 1/12

LIS is happy to invite you to its 2025 Summer Lecture on “Social contagion, inequality and mobility” by Prof. Marc Fleurbaey, The Paris School of Economics The lecture will take place on June 30, 2025 from 17:30 to 18:30, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...

📣 Submit your paper to the 10th Conference in Development Economics organised by SITES. Keynotes: Stefan Dercon (Oxford), Nathalie Picard (Université de Strasbourg) Kevin Urama (AFB) 📅 15-17 September 2025 📍 Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy Apply by 31 May 2025 Link: shorturl.at/unDqU

Using @lisdata.bsky.social data, I plot wealth inequality against income inequality and the wealth-to-income ratio: how much wealth a country has, relative to the size of its economy. As expected, there's minimal relationship between the Gini index for marketable wealth and that for income

​📢 Reminder: The application deadline for the 2025 LIS Summer Workshop is 11 April 2025. This course will take place from 30 June to 4 July 2025 at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus. For more details and to apply: www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve... #Inequality #SummerWorkshop

Two weeks left to apply! This year's Inequality by the Numbers research workshop will be held in person at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social from June 9 to 13. Apply by March 31!

--Inequality Matters, Issue 33, March 2025-- www.lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/u... This issue of Inequality Matters features:

🖥️ LIS is happy to announce data updates: ▶️LIS Data • Austria – AT22 • Australia – AU20 • Brazil – Annualisation BR80-BR89 • Canada – CA21 • Greece – Annualisation GR02-GR21 • Norway – NO22 ▶️LWS Data • France – FR09/14/17/20 • Norway – NO22 • Slovenia – SI21 www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...

📢 Applications Open: 2025 LIS Summer Workshop! 📢 Join us 30 June – 4 July 2025 at the University of Luxembourg for an intensive one-week course on Comparative Inequality Measurement using the LIS & LWS Databases. Workshop organised together with @uni.lu @liser.lu.

LIS reunion! March 1, Luxembourg. Tim Smeeding, Teresa Munzi, Caroline de Tombeur, Thierry Kruten, Marc Cigrang, Serge Allegrezza, Branko Milanovic, moi. We've spent collective 250+ years with LIS and we all remain dedicated to cross-national data and research, no matter what. @lisdata.bsky.social

Memorable event in Luxembourg! Chico Ferreira & I had the pleasure of talking with @brankomilan.bsky.social about "Visions of #Inequality". Merci to our excellent hosts: @lisdata.bsky.social, @liser.lu, @uni.lu. Brilliant audience of about 150. @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

✨ The 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference – That’s a Wrap! ✨ On February 27-28, 2025, we gathered in Luxembourg for a thought-provoking exchange on comparative economic inequality, featuring cutting-edge research and discussions.

Latest income inequality estimates from the LIS Database. Find more indicators here: ▶️Inequality and Poverty Key Figures www.lisdatacenter.org/lis-ikf-weba... ▶️DART dart.lisdatacenter.org ▶️Our World in Data (OWID) inequality explorers www.lisdatacenter.org/data-access/...

⏰Deadline extended! The deadline for research stays at LIS/LISER has been extended to February 8th. Find more information here: www.lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/u...

📢 NEW Mapping Contents’ tables available! We have updated the mapping resources for the LIS Database and LWS Database to help you navigate the #income / #consumption / #expenditure / #assets / #liabilities variables more easily. 👇

III Director Francisco H G Ferreira will be presenting at UCL on 29 January, 5.00 to 6.30pm. His talk will explore the available evidence on the persistence of inequality across generations in Latin America – one of the world’s two most unequal regions. Find out more ⬇️

🌍 Exciting Opportunities at LIS and LISER! LIS and @liserinlux.bsky.social are proud to announce the third call for two research initiatives: ▶️ Senior Fellowship ▶️ Research Stays www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve...

Registration for the 2nd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference 2025 is open! Please find the conference agenda here: www.lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/u.... Note registration is mandatory (this is an in-person event only): form.jotform.com/243322120968.... @lseinequalities.bsky.social

📣 Exciting opportunities at LISER & LIS! We are proud to announce the 3rd call for 2 research initiatives: This year a particular attention will be given to the policies dealing w/ old-age & #pensions and their impact on #inequality & labour market outcomes. 🔗 lisdatacenter.org/news-and-eve... 1/4

🚨 Call for Papers: Special Issue on “#Immigration in OECD Countries” in the Canadian Journal of Economics. ⌛️ Submission deadline: April 1, 2025 📚 Co-edited by Hillel Rapoport, Arthur Sweetman & @jeromevalette.bsky.social 🔗Submission portal: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cje-rce

First post on Bsky! Hello world! 👇Since December 2024 the LIS & LWS databases contain more than 1000 datasets. This enables research on more than 30 Mio. households and 90 Mio individuals. Explore our databases here: www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/ #LISdata #inequality #poverty #research

Register for the 2nd III/ @lisdata.bsky.social Conference, 27–28 Feb 2025 in Luxembourg. 🎓 80+ papers, keynotes by Nora Lustig & @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social, and a book presentation by @brankomilan.bsky.social 🔗 For programme and registration: edu.nl/83j3b